Mary’s dime（一毛錢）
It was Sunday afternoon. I decided to clean up the
room nicely so that my parents would feel 1 when
they returned from a long ride! Then, I sat in the room, having nothing to do.
What else
could I do? Then, with no reason, I suddenly 2 the pale
face of that little beggar(乞丐) girl. I could see the
glad light 3 her eyes when I put the dime in her
little dirty hand.
How
much I 4 that dime, too! Grandpa gave it to me a whole month
ago, and I had kept it ever since in my red box upstairs, but those sugar
apples looked so attractive, and were so 5 — only
a dime a piece — that I wanted to have one.
I
could imagine the little girl stood there in front of the 6 in
her old dirty dress, looking at the 7 that were put
all in a row in the window. I wonder what I should say, “Little girl, what do
you want?” I gently asked. She felt 8 and looked
straight at me, just as if（似乎）nobody had spoken so 9 to
her before. She realized what I had meant, so she said seriously and sadly. “I
was thinking how good one of those delicious hamburgers would 10 .
I haven’t had anything to eat today.”
Now I
thought to myself, “Mary Williams, you have had a good breakfast and a good
lunch today, 11 this poor girl has not had a
mouthful yet. You can give her your 12 . She needs it a great
deal more than you do.”
I could not
run away from that little girl’s sad, 13 look — so I dropped
the dime right into her hand. How 14 the girl was! I am so
glad I gave her the dime, 15 I had to go without the
apple lying there in the window.
1. A．disturbed B．unhappy C．satisfied D．interested
2. A．saw B．remembered C．forgot D．described
3. A．filling B．protecting C．a(chǎn)ttracting D．touching
4. A．hated B．loved C．missed D．noticed
5. A．valuable B．meaningful C．expensive D．cheap
6. A．market B．library C．store D．bookshop
7. A．dresses B．magazines C．books D．candies
8. A．surprised B．excited C．pleased D．worried
9. A．happily B．kindly C．a(chǎn)ngrily D．sadly
10. A．taste B．sound C．feel D．smell
11. A．since B．so C．a(chǎn)nd D．but
12. A．a(chǎn)pple B．hamburger C．dime D．candy
13. A．proud B．a(chǎn)ngry C．calm D．hungry
14. A．grateful B．unlucky C．lonely D．friendly
15. A．unless B．if C．though D．because
